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Why I'm Trading In A Windows 8 Laptop For A MacBook Air

Forbes: My daughter — who is now an adult — has been using Windows PCs for most of her life. She grew up with them, used one in high school and took a Windows laptop with her to college and graduate school.

Recently her old Windows 7 laptop died, so I got her a Windows 8 laptop. It happened to be a Toshiba but it really doesn’t matter which brand. The hardware was fine but she hated the operating system. Sure, it had a touch-screen and, yes, I installed software that restored the Start menu and let her bypass that Windows 8 “Metro” interface but she still found the operating system annoying.

Software_Lover3794d ago

so you're gonna trade in one piece of hardware because she can't learn the O.S. for another piece of hardware so she can learn that O.S. from scratch?

I understand the malware part. She needs to be more careful in that regard. But I just don't see the issue with windows 8. Go to the desktop for normal stuff. If you need to find something, even a program, use search. I f'n boots up in 8 secs or less.

I guess I'm jaded because I use a convertible, but I love the O.S. I even have steam on it for downtime.

To each their own. If she's having problems with it then it is in her right to get something else that she likes. That is the freedom we have.

I wish her well in her new O.S.

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sonicwrecks57d ago

I've fixed the images on some of these past submissions of yours. Please in the future make sure the image isn't broken on submission.( I always found it best to download/upload it to be honest. )